The Citizen Question: It Is Already Being Asked
The Trump Administration has announced that it will ask a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has already filed a lawsuit to stop it. The only problem is, the citizenship question is already being asked, and has been for two decades. A little history. From 1820 until 1950 the […]
Fees & Fines, The Backdoor Way to Fund Government
Last year, Larry Summers, the former Treasury secretary, said during a speech that “With the same values and preferences, and the same basic attitude about government activity versus private activity, you should expect government to be larger in the future than it has been in the past.” He explained the reasons:
SB 827 is Not a Housing Bill
(Editor’s Note: The following transcript was taken from The Planning Report published by David Abel in Los Angeles about urban planning, growth, design, and public infrastructure investment.) Having spent decades adjudicating land-use and transit issues while serving in LA’s local government, what are your thoughts on State Senator Scott Wiener’s SB 827?
Here’s A Protest You Can’t Do Anymore
Long time television, radio and print journalist, host of To the Point podcast and two time winner of the Los Angeles Society of Professional Journalists Distinguished Journalist Award. On a warm summer evening in 1954, my high school classmate Gerry and I walked up to the steel fence topped by tall bronze spears that surrounded the Eisenhower […]